Tag: art

It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it

Walt Disney World entrance sign
Yesterday while bicycling through town.

 

It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.

And how you do it is driven by why?

Do you know your why?

Why you do something is the only way to become an artist.

Can you pin point the moment everything changed for you?

Starting with why came into my life 1999, at age 40.

In 1999 i suddenly found myself in a new career (but still with the same company, Disney) as a professional speaker at Disney Institute.

It was never a dream to become a speaker.

In fact, i was deathly afraid of not being able to measure up.

Ultimately, 15 years later, annual statistics revealed what i never knew – Guest Satisfaction Measurement (GSM) scores showed all Facilitator rankings in 10 categories.

In any measurement survey, someone or something will score the highest overall.

 

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Take solace in being different

Hidden Disney Mickey
Easy to spot if you have an eye for it. And i’m not talking about the fish, but rather the mouse.

 

Take solace in being different.

As you grow and develop your brand, the most effective methods for marketing your brand will become clearer.

But remember this clarity builds only as long as you stay true to challenging conventional wisdom, which is, after all, the DNA of your brand. And that’s a big risk because it requires constantly going against the grain.

Most antagonists are frowned upon.

Get used to it.

Learn to thrive on it – knowing the world needs people who .think .differenty

That’s you.

It’s grueling work, noble work, and quite often, breathtaking work.

Best in your category or a category of one?

You’ll be making thousands of decisions in your lifetime. Your clear, concise, and compelling vision will guide you as long as you don’t back down.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

Should we love uncertainty?

road work sign
Yesterday in our front yard. Can road work employees consider their work art? Should they?

 

Art rarely can be scaled for a production line.

Yet Apple does it with the iPhone.

However, art, for mere mortals like you and me, cannot be scaled.

But is can be replicated in original ways every single day.

It’s called passion.

A calling.

A drive to do the ordinary in extra-ordinary ways.

And each day because we begin anew, we can never be sure of our finished product.

Sometimes we fall short, or even fail.

And this is beautiful.

It reminds us of how uncertain art can be.

Art always carries risk.

And the minute we try to remove uncertainty from our art, something dies.

Removing uncertainty destroys the thing we originally fell in love with.

Whatever we do today, it won’t be the result that makes it magic, it will be the uncertainty.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

Refrigerator art for midlife

Epcot landscaping
Yesterday after lunch, walking back to our car. The walk, and the time and conversation together, was not urgent.

 

The urgency of daily living feels like a good reason to abandon the important thing we postpone for later.

We become more aware of the reality of our time on Earth and the limitations placed on us by our life’s choices, and the evaporating options remaining.

Looking back, we can’t remember what that urgent thing was. All we have to show for it now is the the habit we didn’t change.

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

This website is about our mental attitude. To easily and safely leave this site to read today’s post on jeff’s physical health website, click here.

 

The art of midlife looking

Top Disney Management Conference speakers
Seriously, every single day before heading out the door, i write five different blogs on five different web sites. The sun is just beginning to hit Cinderella Castle.

 

The art of midlife looking (seeing your life differently).

  • Be ever present
  • Continuously break the self-imposed tyranny of conformity
  • See the wonderland in your dreams

Art is doing things differently or better than the way the Herd does it.

My breakthrough arrived insidiously, during 2014. That 2008 impossible goal to write five different blogs on five different sites was ridiculous. On top of that, i wrongly envisioned it morphing into something remarkable.

Yet miraculously, i never abandoned writing five daily, differently-themed blogs on five different websites.

And the art that is created each morning is original and different, but definitely not better. The beauty in art is that different is all you need.

 

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